Alexander I. Poltorak

Chairman and CEO
Alexander I. Poltorak is the Founder, Chairman and the CEO of General Patent Corporation (GPC), an intellectual property (IP) firm focusing on intellectual property strategy and valuation, IP licensing and enforcement. He also serves as the Managing Director of IP Holdings LLC (IPH), an IP-centric merchant banking boutique providing IP-focused financial, brokerage and advisory services, and operating an idea incubator.

Prior to establishing GPC in 1987, Alex Poltorak was President and CEO of Rapitech Systems, Inc., a computer technology company that he had founded in 1983 and took public in 1986. Before that, he served as Assistant Professor of Biomathematics at the Neurology Department of Cornell University Medical College. He also served as Assistant Professor of Physics at Touro College. Poltorak has published numerous papers in scientific journals. Alexander Poltorak taught business law as Adjunct Professor at the Globe Institute of Technology. He is a regular guest-lecturer on intellectual property law and economics at the Columbia University School of Business.

Poltorak is a Certified Licensing Professional. He was among the first licensing professionals to be awarded this certification by the Licensing Executives Society (LES) of US and Canada. He was also included in the 2010 IAM Strategy 250, a list of the world's leading IP strategists compiled by Intellectual Asset Management magazine.

Poltorak emigrated from the former U.S.S.R. in 1982, where he was awarded a graduate degree in Theoretical Physics equivalent to a Ph.D. in 1980. As a political dissident, he was stripped of his degrees for anticommunist activities.

Poltorak gave lectures and taught workshops on
• “Patent Valuation” at the 3rd Patent Strategies conference in New York, 2007
• “Fundamentals of Assertive Licensing” at the LES 2006 Annual Meeting in New York
• “Patent Valuation” at the LES 2004 Annual Meeting in Boston
• “Patent Valuation” at the LES Silicon Valley Chapter in 2003
• “Patent Valuation” at the LES Connecticut/Westchester Chapter in 2002

He was a speaker at
• IP Finance and Valuation Conference in New York, 2009
• National Association of Patent Practitioners in Alexandria, VA, 2008
• IP Finance and Valuation Conference in New York, 2008
• IP Finance and Valuation Conference in New York, 2007
• Chaired a session and presented at the “Calculating & Proving Patent Damages" Conference in Philadelphia, 2006
• The Patent Strategy – 2006 Conference in New York
• The IPO Conference in March 2005 in Washington, DC
• The AIPLA meeting in May 2005 in Philadelphia
• “Life after Rembrandts – New Development in IP Strategy” seminar in August 2005 in Chicago.
• Maximizing Returns on Intellectual Property Conferences in New York, 2005

Alex has been often interviewed on CNN, CBS, Tokyo TV, CFO Magazine, InstitutionalInvestor.com, WallStreetReporter.com, Industry Week, EE Times and Bloomberg Radio. He serves on the advisory editorial board of Patent Strategy & Management. Tokyo TV Ch. 12 featured a documentary about Poltorak and his company in May of 2002.

Poltorak is a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), the New York Academy of Science, the American Physical Society, International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a U.S. co-chairman for the Subcommittee on Information Exchange of the US-USSR Trade and Economic Council.

Alexander Poltorak was awarded seven U.S. patents.

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